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MR. BARTLETT brings up in his letter a very interesting view to explain the disappearance of the residual resistance at the threshold temperature in supraconductors. As this residual resistance is produced by impurities or structural imperfections, it is suggested that it can be short-circuited by the perfect (healthy) paths of the conducting metal, which suddenly acquire an abnormally high conductivity of quite a different order from that observed in ordinary metals.
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KAPITZA, P. A Property of Superconducting Metals. Nature 123, 870–871 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/123870a0
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